Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 85, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 August 1928 — Page 3

AUG. 29, 1928

BUDGET SLASH IS APPROVED BY CITY_COUNCIL Accepts C. of C, Proposal to Pare 1929 Tax Rate; Vote Friday. City councilmen have agreed tentatively on a sl.lO civil city taxe rate for 1929. The decision will be subject to minor changes Thursday night and approval Friday night. Edward W. Harris, council finance chairman, said. The council conferred with department heads Tuesday night and agreed generally to accept the Chamber of Commerce recommendations on the 1929 appropriation. The general fund rate will be 63.5 cent, one cent/' increase over the Chamber’s recommendation. The rate asked of council by the mayor was 65 cents. Increase Over This Year The proposed tax levy will be an increase of 7.5 cents over the 1923 levy, but a decrease of 5 cents from the levy requested by the Slack ministration.The council met as a committee of the whole on several occasions and pared the departmental requests to permit the cut. Edward B. Raub, council president, called the Friday night session to avoid a meeting on Labor Day. The appropriation will include a $50,000 contingent fund, some $30,000 of which can be used for maintenance of the proposed city airport. The council listed SI,OOO for expenses of the civil service department unanimously demanded by councilmen, indicating additional money could be obtained if desired by Mayor Slack. Memorial Levy Cut "We have attempted to meet the needs of each department without hampering efficiency,” Harris declared. Engineering department personnel was increased and a pay boost granted the engineer’s aids. Other salary boosts were disclosed. William H. Book, Chamber of Commerce civic director, who sat in at the budget sessions, commended the council’s business stand on the appropriation ordinance. Michael W. Madden, an accountant, aided Book. The general fund increase of one cent was offset by the cut of the War memorial levy from 2 cents to 1 cent. The total appropriation contemplated for 1929 is $9,336,000, a decrease of $298,000 from the figure asked by Slack. WOMAN FINDS FAMILY MISSING SINCE FRIDAY i Calls Police of Reunion After Being Stranded Four Days. Mrs. John Martin. 42. of Madison. ,N. C.. 'after searching for her husband and three children, who disappeared at Washington St. and Arlington Ave., Friday, found them Tuesday night. They were located . at the home of a relative living in the country, she told the police over the telephone. She did not give the relative’s address. After searching since Friday for her family she appealed to the police Tuesday to help her. She told them she came to Indianapolis with her husband and three children after their farm had been flooded in North Carolina. She had left her husband and children on E. Washington St. -while she went to purchase food. When she returned twenty minutes later they had disappeared. URGES SPEEDY TRIALS Democrat Opens Campaign for County Prosecutor. Impartial law enforcement offers the means of combatting crime, increased by political corruption and failure of the courts to mete out prompt and severe punishment, declared Raymond F. Murray, Democratic candidate for prosecuting attorney, addressing the Seventh District Democratic Women’s Club Tuesday night. The address following a dinner meeting at the Indiana Democratic Club, 319 N. Pennsylvania St., and marked the start of Murray’s campaign. Asserting there are 148 persons charged With crime during the last two years who still await trial in Criminal Court, Murray pledged cooperation with the criminal judge in obtaining speedy trials. Mrs. W. C. Smith, club president, presided. Miss Bess Robinson, candidate for the Legislature, was another speaker. Unroofs Apartment Tenant Bn United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 29.—Anthony Prestigiacoma. a real estate broker, was arraigned for malicious mischief when Dr. Henry W. Graves charged the broker took out all the skylight in Graves’ apartment, after Graves had refused to move. Hoosier Robbed of $650. B.i/United Press „„ KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 29 It cost C. F. Lancaster, 22. Albion, Ind., a sailor on furlough, exactly $650 to see the sights in Kansas jCity Tuesday night. T.amaster reported to police that while two at fable strangers showed him around they robbed him of his bank roil Loses Children to Private School PLAINS, -N. Y., Aug. 29. —Robert King obtained custody of his two children because his estranged wife “was unable to send them to private school.” Justice Taylor remarked he would not have attained his position in life ‘had I gone to private school.” Girl Won’t Climb; Stays Single Bit Untied Press „„ ... WASHINGTON, Aug. 29—Miss Effie Cave, 260 pounds, of Page I Country, Va., came here to get mars ried. She changed her mind when her fiance told her she would have to climb three flights to the apartment he had chosen.

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Miss Laura Volstead, daughter of Ex-Congressnan Andrew J. Volstead of Minnesota, who introduced the prohibition enforcement act. and Carl J. Lomen of New York are to be wed in October. Lomen, son of Judge and Mrs. G. J. Lomen of Nome, Alaska, is president of an Alaskan company which raises reindeer isn a huge scale. Miss Volstead, a iaw graduate, is president of the Women’s Republican Club at St. Paul.

STEAL FOR LIQUOR Trio Take Widow’s Chairs to Raise Money. Three men, three dining room chairs, a widowed mother of three children and a thirst for liquor were linked in police reports today. The three men, according to Lieut. Patrick O’Connor, admitted they were trying to sell the chairs stolen from the widow’s home to get money to buy liquor. Charles Gabi, 38, and Charles Berger, 18, both roomers at 515 W. Ray St., were arrested on Jones St., where they were peddling the chairs from door to door. They admitted, according to O’Connor, that Virgil Johnson, 32, of 513 W. Ray St., stole the chairs from the home of Mrs. Matilda Kenworthy, 513 Ray St., where he rooms. Mrs. Kenworthy, according to police, works in a veneer factory to support her three small children. She was buying the chairs, worth $lO, on installments, she said.

Funeral Only Father of Bandit Refuses Aid at Bloomington,

Bn Times Special Bloomington, ind., Aug. 29. ' —“I have long ago told Bob this—l did all I could for him and with him and then I stopped. Now if he gets killed I will give him a Christian burial, but that is the” only thing I will do for him.” This was the ultimatum to authority here when they asked William Ikerd if he would pay for an operation on his son, Bob, wounded after a filling station hold up in which he and accomplices kidnaped the proprietor, David Chitwood, and were captyred after a gun battle with Bedford police. Despite the father’s stand, authorities had the operation performed, and a bullet and part of a knee cap were removed at a local hospital. 'MOBY DICK’ SIGHTED First White Whale in Years Re ported Off New England. WASHINGTON, Aug. 29—A white whale, resembling Moby Dick, the famous character in Melville's novel, has been discovered off the New England coast, the Bureau of Fisheries was advised today. Officials said it was the first report of a white whale in years. Eat 270 Pounds of Beans Bn United. Press FARKERSBURG, Ind.. Aug. 29 Between 800 and 1,000 persons partook of Parkersburg’s annual bean dinner. Two hundred seventy pounds of navy beans and 125 pounds of pork were consumed. Tomatoes, pickles, slaw, crackers and iced tea were served with the dinner. Speeches, a musical program and recitations were delivered. Writes Charlie Chaplin Bp Times Special PERU, Ind., Aug. 29—The Chaplin lamily which will hold a reunion in the city park here Sept. 9, has invited Charlie Chaplin, film comedian, to attend. He is a distant cousin of some members of the family. “Hitch-Hikes’ to Los Angeles By Times Special VINCENNES, Ind., Aug. 29 Stanley Bartholomai, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bartholomai, has just advised his parents of his arrival in Los Angeles, Cal., after a twelve-day “hitch-hike” trip from here.

COUNCIL HEAD TALKS Raub Lauds Manager Rule in Rotary Address. Need for men of character to successfully operate the city manager form of municipal government which becomes effective in 1930 was

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stressed by Edward B. Raub, city council president, before the Rotary Club at the Claypool, Tuesday. “We shall have good government regardless of the form, if men of high type executive ability are placed in office, Raub said. “Men like you must be aroused to your civil obligatons. These obligations call for work and sacrifice of time and money,” Raub asserted. Raub voiced objection to the di-

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QUAKERS ELECT CLERK Earlhom Instructor Fifteenth to Hold Position in 108 Years. Bit Times Special RICHMOND. Ind., Aug. 29—Arthur M. Charles, member of the Earlham College faculty here, is the new r presiding clerk of the Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends, only the fifteenth man to hold that office in the meeting’s existence of 108 years.

He was chosen at the opening Tuesday of the meeting’s one hundred eighth annual session. Other officers chosen are Isidore Wilson, recording clerk; Edith J. Hunt and E. P. Trueblood, reading clerks; Parvin Bond, announcing clerk, and William Webb, Herbert Reice, Margaret Gusweiler, Olive Smith, Thomas Carter and Ethel Bedford, pages. Financial board members: Anna

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